In re the Marriage of Wilson

Husband seeks modification of a dissolution decree to terminate his $200 per month permanent spousal support obligation, relying primarily on wife’s remarriage. The trial court refused to modify the decree on the ground that there was not a sufficient unanticipated change in circumstances. Husband appeals that ruling and also assigns as error the trial court’s award of attorney fees to wife.

The dissolution decree was entered April 18, 1980, nunc pro tunc April 2, 1980. At that time husband was 55, wife was 51, and they had been married 18 years. In June, 1980, wife married, a man with whom…